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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Lab Servers Part 1


I purchased the following:
  • 1u Rackmount Server Chassis – iStarUSA
  • 40 mm Fans – EverCool
  • Motherboard – ASUS P8H61-I R2.0 H61 with LGA1155 socket, Mini-ITX
  • CPU – Intel Celeron G1610 2.6 Ghz
  • RAM – 8 GB DDR3
  • Hard Drive – 500GB SATA 3.0Gbps
When I attempted to install the motherboard and CPU into the server chassis, it became readily apparent that this setup would not work.

The CPU heatsink on the bottom side of the mother board was taller than the standoffs on the chassis. This made it so that the motherboard sat on the bottom of the chassis about 1\8 of an inch above the top of the standoffs. If were to screw the motherboard to the standoffs, the motherboard would bend and warp. That would cause solder connections to the motherboard components to break. Not a good thing.

The top of the CPU heat sink and fan was taller than case itself. There was no way I could put the top cover of the chassis on with that motherboard and CPU.

Guess I need to buy a taller server chassis for this motherboard and CPU and another motherboard with an embedded CPU and heat sink to fit inside of this 1u chassis.
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